Seal skin sporrans?

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Now I'm wondering if there is some new ban I haven't hear of in effect- or looming or something. Can you share any such info, AMS?

This is what i've read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...er-EU-ban.html

I was in a local kilt shop here in Toronto and the guys said that is looked like April 10th was the day.

[Semiomniscient]

....Seals are about the most un-endangered species out there.

Not doubting you, but then why are they protected so fiercly in the U.S.?

[azwildcat96]

Not doubting you, but then why are they protected so fiercly in the U.S.?

3 words...animal rights activists.

Too much publicity of "bad" men with clubs harvesting the animals! A very disturbing visual image to the American public!

Just my opinion.

[Lallans]

3 words...animal rights activists.

Too much publicity of "bad" men with clubs harvesting the animals! A very disturbing visual image to the American public!

Just my opinion.

Three more words: Big Brown Eyes

and three more words: Cute Seal Pups

and four more words: Not Our Incomes Involved.

[Scotcop]

Three more words: Big Brown Eyes

and three more words: Cute Seal Pups

and four more words: Not Our Incomes Involved.

EXACTLY!!!
No one cares if a mouse dies, it's gross and ugly, but the cute seals must be preserved..........I have a word for that type of thinking......


DUMB!!!

[Vegan Scot]

I see this thread potentially going off-topic very quickly and I don't want that to happen, but I will briefly chime in and add a couple points.

Indigenous harvesting of seal skin is one thing, Canuck. A multi-national corporation such as Carino LTD "harvesting" seal skin with no respect for the natural ecosystem or the the welfare of the animals they use is quite another.

Scotcop, you're correct and it's unfortunate that preference is given to one animal and not another by the general public whose opinions are manipulated by people with their own agendas. My word for that type of thinking is speciesism.

[n5rmj]

I live in Bethel, Alaska, which is smack dab in the middle of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge (http://yukondelta.fws.gov/). The refuge covers about 19.16 million acres (77548 km²) in southwestern Alaska. The Yupik natives here are allowed by law to hunt seal for food and produce goods from the skins for sale. The fur skins are mostly used to produce parkas and hats but I bet I could get a few people here interested in making seal skin sporrans.

[Lallans]

I don't think animal activists, who I would otherwise really like to support, much care about whether or not native peoples are involved in the process, or if they starve or live on welfare or not. If said activists in fact do, I hope to see some postive action in that regard. Let us know when that happens.

[auld argonian]

Here:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Dogs-Pigs...9547653&sr=8-1

I heard an interview with this author on NPR a couple of weeks ago...very interesting.

I'm sort of convinced that nothing makes someone want something more than when they're told that they can't have it. You can make a sporran out of any number of things but the seal skin thing keeps coming up again and again. It looks nice but so do a lot of things that don't come with a hassle.

Best

AA

[Lallans]

Don't know if you're a South Park fan but I refer you their recent-ish "Whale Whores" episode (Google it, I can't provide a link from where I am). The boys find out why the Japanese slaughter dolphins and whales and then manage to redirect their slaughtering energies to the socially acceptable chickens and cows. Quite a funny takeoff on both the film "The Cove" and the Whale Wars TV show- if that is you think South Park is funny. Otherwise it's just true.